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are you concerned about senator john mccain? >> i am always concerned about dealmaking for the sake of dealmaking. if one party says here is what i stand for and another says here is what i stand for and in the process you have to say how do we get something done? that is different from saying it is really cool to get some people in the room and let's try to negotiate something. sometimes you look at what senator mccain has done. he has had great accomplishments. he has had a heroic path for the country. other times there is an enthusiasm about gangs for the sake of gangs. >> this is a little broad, hypothetical. for those people who are watching, if someone out there and the audience happens to be a conservative who has substantial financial means to give money to some group in washington and they have not done so before, why would they get it to you incident the club for growth or americans for tax reform or some other organization? why is yours the one they should be giving their money to? >> there are a lot of good groups ou
are you concerned about senator john mccain? >> i am always concerned about dealmaking for the sake of dealmaking. if one party says here is what i stand for and another says here is what i stand for and in the process you have to say how do we get something done? that is different from saying it is really cool to get some people in the room and let's try to negotiate something. sometimes you look at what senator mccain has done. he has had great accomplishments. he has had a heroic path...
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. >> i am part of the mccain institute and i'm currently a student at the university of texas and i am wondering about this issue, it seems like they are starting to notice obama's immortality is disappearing and that he is flawed. what will it take for them to go maybe it is time to see the light and understand that he is not all he's cracked up to be? >> i think it is keeping your eyes open and watching what is happening. simple observations. it is not surprising -- the biggest difference between the two parties today in america, they are the party of government and we are the party of the private sector. that is not that we should think there is no government at all, but they really trust the government. that is why they are in such a tight alliance with a look employee unions who are the principal benefactor of larger government and to have little or no interest in bigger and bigger debt. to the extent that they have become skeptical, that maybe this degree of government is not such a good idea, that is an encouraging sign. one of the great things about being young is that if your
. >> i am part of the mccain institute and i'm currently a student at the university of texas and i am wondering about this issue, it seems like they are starting to notice obama's immortality is disappearing and that he is flawed. what will it take for them to go maybe it is time to see the light and understand that he is not all he's cracked up to be? >> i think it is keeping your eyes open and watching what is happening. simple observations. it is not surprising -- the biggest...
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finally, senator john mccain dismissed louie gohmert's accusation that he john mccain secretly supported al qaeda. >> congressman gohmert of texas called you an al qaeda supporter and it hardly made a blip in all the talk. >> well, on that particular issue, sometimes those are comments like that are made out of malice. but if someone has no intelligence, i don't view it as being a malicious statement. >> if someone has no intelligence, i don't see it as a malicious statement. what a great appropriate putdown by senator mccain. >>> up next, the shutdown may have given democrats something they didn't think they'd have. a chance to win. this is "hardball," the place for politics. my 60' i've got a nice long life ahead. big plans. so when i found out medicare doesn't pay all my medical expenses, i looked at my options. then i got a medicare supplement insurance plan. [ male announcer ] if you're eligible for medicare, you may know it only covers about 80% of your part b medical expenses. the rest is up to you. call now and find out about an aarp medicare supplement insurance plan, insured by
finally, senator john mccain dismissed louie gohmert's accusation that he john mccain secretly supported al qaeda. >> congressman gohmert of texas called you an al qaeda supporter and it hardly made a blip in all the talk. >> well, on that particular issue, sometimes those are comments like that are made out of malice. but if someone has no intelligence, i don't view it as being a malicious statement. >> if someone has no intelligence, i don't see it as a malicious statement....
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john mccain said he didn't know whether he was sad or angered by what the president had said. cooler heads have obviously prevailed here. and we do know that the president had been on the phone working this, even though joe biden was sort of the front man, flying point, if you will. and negotiations with mitch mcconnell. so, sure, the president has been very involved. he, you know, he has led this campaign style effort to try to force republicans' hand. again, many of those folks are a little bit disappointed that that threshold was allowed to rise in these negotiations. but he did back republicans into a corner here to an extent that they're voting now on a tax hike that many thought they would never vote in favor of. >> i hate to look at the next fight before we conclude the one that we're in now, but since you mentioned the debt ceiling earlier and what we're facing in the next couple of months, what are we looking ahead to? what's the next struggle that we're going to see here? >> folks are familiar with the debt ceiling. the debt in this country is $16 trillion and growin
john mccain said he didn't know whether he was sad or angered by what the president had said. cooler heads have obviously prevailed here. and we do know that the president had been on the phone working this, even though joe biden was sort of the front man, flying point, if you will. and negotiations with mitch mcconnell. so, sure, the president has been very involved. he, you know, he has led this campaign style effort to try to force republicans' hand. again, many of those folks are a little...
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gwen: governing. >> but look at john mccain. john mccain could be helpful on immigration. he's their worst enemy on benghazi. >> don't forget the prospects for a budget deal as well. you have tax reform and an effort by max baucus and dave camp and new c.b.o. numbers showing the deficit coming down rapidly. that means the kind of deal you would need to make further progress over the long run isn't as big. numbers aren't as big. might make it easier to do and all sides might have an incentive to get it done. >> the question is if you're a republican who wants to work with the president, if your constituents will allow you, because your constituents are thinking the white house isn't telling the truth. they're thinking they got the i.r.s. going into their records. and so if you're a republican senator and you turn back to your constituents and say, buy this deal i'm selling you because you can trust the white house. they may think you're nuts. gwen: we have so much more to talk about. and guess what? the conversation is going to end here but it's going to continue right as t
gwen: governing. >> but look at john mccain. john mccain could be helpful on immigration. he's their worst enemy on benghazi. >> don't forget the prospects for a budget deal as well. you have tax reform and an effort by max baucus and dave camp and new c.b.o. numbers showing the deficit coming down rapidly. that means the kind of deal you would need to make further progress over the long run isn't as big. numbers aren't as big. might make it easier to do and all sides might have an...
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senator mccain said this has been debated, the american people have spoken and when they reelected president obama. senator mcconned said our strategying have been to be based in the real world, in real yi9, not based on what ted cruz just did. you've also been a critic of what senator cruz did last night. is this good for the republican party? where is the strategy? >> well, look, you know, bob and i are privileged to serve in a very unusual institution. you've been there with us, you know how it works. the thing about the united states senate is every member has the opportunity to express themselves when they feel passionately about some idea. ted cruz feels really passionate about repealing obama care. i disagree maybe with the method, but look, he is a member of the senate just like each of us are, and he has the right to take the floor as he did last night and two express himself, and deliver a message, stephanie, to the american people that he thinks is very important, and frankly i think is very important. that is, we're fixing to get hit with the biggest entitlement program the ameri
senator mccain said this has been debated, the american people have spoken and when they reelected president obama. senator mcconned said our strategying have been to be based in the real world, in real yi9, not based on what ted cruz just did. you've also been a critic of what senator cruz did last night. is this good for the republican party? where is the strategy? >> well, look, you know, bob and i are privileged to serve in a very unusual institution. you've been there with us, you...
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john mccain to come to a deal. [laughter] >> i will do anything. stop calling. [laughter] atthey should try that fourth, mo. the guys will talk every time. democratsits, the happened to be on the right side. on the issue of the president's appointments, he should get whom he once unless they are some .ind of limited -- lunatic on legislation, it is different from judicial. each party always argues against a filibuster when is in the majority. but they always end up in the minority. they ought to be a little bit circumspect. forhe filibuster was killing civil rights legislation in the 1950's and 1960's. that is what it is used. >> republicans keep trying to kill obamacare. the president has started to sell it again. >> i recognize there are still a lot of folks in this town return for the law to fail. >> he had given business's one year's grace before providing coverage for employees. the house speaker says individuals deserve no less. extending two bills fairness to all americans. the president said he would veto t
john mccain to come to a deal. [laughter] >> i will do anything. stop calling. [laughter] atthey should try that fourth, mo. the guys will talk every time. democratsits, the happened to be on the right side. on the issue of the president's appointments, he should get whom he once unless they are some .ind of limited -- lunatic on legislation, it is different from judicial. each party always argues against a filibuster when is in the majority. but they always end up in the minority. they...
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with it, obama quips to one of his advisers are we sure it's too late to hand this pile of crap to mccain and the party that created it? [laughter] and the adviser says, yeah, yeah, t probably too late. it's probably too late. and obama goes, well, at least we're buying low. [laughter] not low enough, as it turned out. and in december when his economic aide, christy roamer, she called in with the first jobs report, and she couldn't resist, i'm so sorry, mr. president-elect, the numbers are just horrible. he says, oh, you know, it's not your fault -- yet. [laughter] and another time a little later in the administration david axlerod is in the oval office with him, and he goes, gosh, you know, i wonder what it would be like to govern in good times, and obama just laughs and goes, are you kidding? in good times we never would have got the job. [laughter] anyway, but he kind of, he kind of is what he is, and it's sort of what he presents it to be. i guess question number two about obama would be, well f he's this sort of -- if he's this sort of sane, grounded, sort of left-of-center but not l
with it, obama quips to one of his advisers are we sure it's too late to hand this pile of crap to mccain and the party that created it? [laughter] and the adviser says, yeah, yeah, t probably too late. it's probably too late. and obama goes, well, at least we're buying low. [laughter] not low enough, as it turned out. and in december when his economic aide, christy roamer, she called in with the first jobs report, and she couldn't resist, i'm so sorry, mr. president-elect, the numbers are just...
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there's mccain saying yes. yes. >> you know, nobody not even john mccain is going to convince ted cruz or the 30 or 40 members of the kamikaze club in the tea party house of representatives that they're wrong and they should change course. that's not going to happen. what can happen is because of poll results like this, other members of the party whether it's john mccain, whether it's peter king in the house, put enough pressure on boehner and even on mcconnell to fix this thing before the republican brand gets even more tarnished. that's where the action is. you're never going to get the people who came to town to destroy government to feel bad about destroying government. >> thank you, david corn, jonathan capehart. see you next week probably. >>> coming up, a lot of them fear the antigovernment extremists or zealots are tearing the party around and they might be right. >>> also, mr. ted cruz told the values voters summit today he's not giving up. and all over washington democrats are enjoying the fact. and t
there's mccain saying yes. yes. >> you know, nobody not even john mccain is going to convince ted cruz or the 30 or 40 members of the kamikaze club in the tea party house of representatives that they're wrong and they should change course. that's not going to happen. what can happen is because of poll results like this, other members of the party whether it's john mccain, whether it's peter king in the house, put enough pressure on boehner and even on mcconnell to fix this thing before...
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when john mccain talks about politics. a lot of people came in illegally. there are lots of people doing all the right things, standing in line. why should we give a pathway to people doing it illegally when there are people trying to do it legally? others think a bill based on promises about what the government is going to do don't trust the government, which is a reasonable position to have. the problem is when the conversation take place on the political plane, it's not speaking to the people who are thinking in terms of a philosophical view -- gwen: so the senator ted cruz's and mike lees of the world who are pushing back, the white house says to them what? they're becoming like a house? >> i think they do. in mike's case he didn't come from the house but you have a dynamic in the senate where a lot of the republican senators now are people who came from the house and one office there in first the gingrich revolution and the subsequent more conservative waves of the house and they are bringing the waves of the house to the senate. not that the senate co
when john mccain talks about politics. a lot of people came in illegally. there are lots of people doing all the right things, standing in line. why should we give a pathway to people doing it illegally when there are people trying to do it legally? others think a bill based on promises about what the government is going to do don't trust the government, which is a reasonable position to have. the problem is when the conversation take place on the political plane, it's not speaking to the...
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john mccain is her cosponsor. >> snack you and i have gotten to this extensively. here is where it is, to make them seem like constant target. and it is a populous area. and i do not say that they are sinners. i'm wondering whether that exceeds what we are talking about. this is the incoming mayor that these guys are talking about. >> he shouldn't pursue someone just because they are about political person. i just think that i agree with you, they should not try this and so i think that it is by the relentless pressure against the basic things against this bipartisan support and they fight tooth and nail. they perpetuate themselves as targets by fighting reforms that are part of this unsupportive. neil: one thing that stood out was should look at what was going on there. >> bank of america has to pay them, which sounds odd to me. not only are they going to pass on to what frank, but now they have money for it. it's just wacky. >> they are basically operating as hedge funds. they have these mortgage securities that it wasn't hard to figure out. >> and she has acknow
john mccain is her cosponsor. >> snack you and i have gotten to this extensively. here is where it is, to make them seem like constant target. and it is a populous area. and i do not say that they are sinners. i'm wondering whether that exceeds what we are talking about. this is the incoming mayor that these guys are talking about. >> he shouldn't pursue someone just because they are about political person. i just think that i agree with you, they should not try this and so i think...
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old guard is mccain, lindsey graham, mitch mcconnell. i got to say, guys, when you look at it, the republicans, conservatives who would you rather have going forward representing you? the new young bucks -- they got it going on. by the way, for the record, mr. mccain after all this came out and said he thought rand paul was wrong for doing what he did. scratching my head all day why don't you embrace the young guys instead of continueed infighting? >> kimberly: it's interesting how it is lined up with who is pro and con versus a display of democracy. so what do you think about it? young guns? young bucks? what does this happen on libertarian island? >> greg: i'm still thinking 12 hours without peeing. that is a leak the white house is happy about. the big story here is not about the old or the new guard in my opinion. it's turning president obama to dean wermer. he is the bad guy in the animal house franchise. it's a movie, actually. obama generally was the cape crusadeer for justice and ho now is perceived as petulant hypocrite. that is
old guard is mccain, lindsey graham, mitch mcconnell. i got to say, guys, when you look at it, the republicans, conservatives who would you rather have going forward representing you? the new young bucks -- they got it going on. by the way, for the record, mr. mccain after all this came out and said he thought rand paul was wrong for doing what he did. scratching my head all day why don't you embrace the young guys instead of continueed infighting? >> kimberly: it's interesting how it is...
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. >> our sunday exclusive with republican senator john mccain. and with the man who says not so fast. >> this is a terrible deal. >> leading the charge to gut obama care and leaving his party splintered in his wake, our dana bash with tea party favorite, texas republican ted cruz. >>> then, what's next for the tea party? our political panel weighs in on the fiscal fiasco, the flawed health care launch, and the 2014 midterms. this is "state of the union." >>>ed a good morning from washington. i'm gloria borger in for candy crowley. despite a failed effort to defund obama care that resulted in bringing much of the government to a standstill for 16 days, senator ted cruz isn't giving up the fight. and even though he isn't winning many friends here in washington, republicans in his home state are standing by their man. cruz received a hero's welcome saturday at a texas convention of republican women, and cnn's chief congressional correspondent dana bash was there and spoke with the freshman senator right after that event. dana, that was quite a hero'
. >> our sunday exclusive with republican senator john mccain. and with the man who says not so fast. >> this is a terrible deal. >> leading the charge to gut obama care and leaving his party splintered in his wake, our dana bash with tea party favorite, texas republican ted cruz. >>> then, what's next for the tea party? our political panel weighs in on the fiscal fiasco, the flawed health care launch, and the 2014 midterms. this is "state of the union."...
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mccain went on to call crews a wacko bird. >> jon: oh, no, you didn't. did you not call someone a wacko bird because that is a weird insult. and nobody really knows what that means. i mean you're not a sixth grader. so what did cruz say to hagel? to get slapped with the wacko bird label. >> i don't know if mr. hagel has received funds directly or indirectly from foreign sources. it is at a minimum relevant to know if that $200,000 that he deposited in his bank account came directly from saudi arabia, came directly from north korea. we don't know what it was. it may be that he spoke at radical or extreme groups or anti-israel groups and accepted financial compensation. we don't know. >> jon: he might [bleep]. i don't know. these are the questions one must raise in a confirmation hearing with a colleague of many of the other people on this panel who think... i don't know. does he? does he? here's the thing. does he have a puppy? so cruz is not a wacko bird. he's just a "take things out of context to create a false impression of guilt" bird. so it seems acr
mccain went on to call crews a wacko bird. >> jon: oh, no, you didn't. did you not call someone a wacko bird because that is a weird insult. and nobody really knows what that means. i mean you're not a sixth grader. so what did cruz say to hagel? to get slapped with the wacko bird label. >> i don't know if mr. hagel has received funds directly or indirectly from foreign sources. it is at a minimum relevant to know if that $200,000 that he deposited in his bank account came directly...
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the president said in the state of the union address he would prefer a cap and trade plan like john mccain and joe lieberman proposed, but if congress didn't act, he was. that was the sub text that hung in the air when he said he would act on climate change if congress did not. that was the sub text when he nominated gina mccarthy to be head of the epa, because besides being one of mitt romney's top officials back when he accepted the science on climate change, aside from that, she is also the person most recently running the division that overseas clean air at the epa and proposed rules, stringent ones, on new power plants, which brings us to today's news, which is important but completely and totally buried. as part of this on-going battle happening outside the view of the public, we got notice today those regulations, the ones that gina mccarthy oversaw of new power plants that could dramatically reduce carbon emissions are going to be delayed, reviewed further, and likely revised. this is, of course, occasion for the grinding of teeth. public attention matters. in the absence of public
the president said in the state of the union address he would prefer a cap and trade plan like john mccain and joe lieberman proposed, but if congress didn't act, he was. that was the sub text that hung in the air when he said he would act on climate change if congress did not. that was the sub text when he nominated gina mccarthy to be head of the epa, because besides being one of mitt romney's top officials back when he accepted the science on climate change, aside from that, she is also the...
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that was john mccain's, by the way, second appearance on fox within 12 hours. the republicans are right on track for 2016, folks. let's turn to howard fineman, nbc news political analyst and editorial director of the huffington post media group. howard, i was struck by your comment yesterday on "hardball" where you said that the hearing was the last failed shot of the 2012 election and the first failed shot of the 2016 campaign. how are the republicans doing today? >> well, i think i said it was a desperate act, but failed shot will also do. ed, i really think the emotional energy among the republicans is about their frustration at the way they lost the presidential election and their sort of lashing out at major figures in the democratic party such as hillary clinton as they begin the 2016 cycle. rand paul, senator rand paul imagined himself as president and dreamed of how he would have fired hillary clinton. but as implausible as it may seem to our viewers tonight, rand paul wants to run for president and thinks he can get elected. and he's going to run on th
that was john mccain's, by the way, second appearance on fox within 12 hours. the republicans are right on track for 2016, folks. let's turn to howard fineman, nbc news political analyst and editorial director of the huffington post media group. howard, i was struck by your comment yesterday on "hardball" where you said that the hearing was the last failed shot of the 2012 election and the first failed shot of the 2016 campaign. how are the republicans doing today? >> well, i...
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finally, senator john mccain dismissed louie gohmert's accusation that he john mccain secretly supported al qaeda. >> congressman gohmert of texas called you an al qaeda supporter and it hardly made a blip in all the talk. >> well, on that particular issue, sometimes those are comments like that are made out of malice. but if someone has no intelligence, i don't view it as being a malicious statement. >> if someone has no intelligence, i don't see it as a malicious statement. what a great appropriate putdown by senator mccain. >>> up next, the shutdown may have given democrats something they didn't think they'd have. a chance to win. this is "hardball," the place for politics. but they didn't fit. customer's not happy, i'm not happy. sales go down, i'm not happy. merch comes back, i'm not happy. use ups. they make returns easy. unhappy customer becomes happy customer. then, repeat customer. easy returns, i'm happy. repeat customers, i'm happy. sales go up, i'm happy. i ordered another pair. i'm happy. (both) i'm happy. i'm happy. happy. happy. happy. happy. happy happy. i love logistics.
finally, senator john mccain dismissed louie gohmert's accusation that he john mccain secretly supported al qaeda. >> congressman gohmert of texas called you an al qaeda supporter and it hardly made a blip in all the talk. >> well, on that particular issue, sometimes those are comments like that are made out of malice. but if someone has no intelligence, i don't view it as being a malicious statement. >> if someone has no intelligence, i don't see it as a malicious statement....
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senate, senator john mccain of arizona. i started out by asking him about the damage that this entire process has done to his profession, to his party and to the country. >> we have damaged our credibility very badly, and all of us. the president's numbers have gone down. democrat's numbers have gone done. republican's numbers have gone down only greater. and it has eroded the confidence. you just showed, eroded the confidence on the part of the american people. remember that many of the members of the house were elected in 2010, promising to repeal or defund obama care. the problem with their strategy was that it was a fool's errand. we were not going to defund obama care. that's why we had an election in 2012. that's part of what that was all about. so it was a terrific mistake. we inflicted pain on the american people that was totally unnecessary. and we cannot do this again. we republicans have a hole that we've got to come out of. and obviously we're going to have to do a lot of work. well, he's entitled to his views.
senate, senator john mccain of arizona. i started out by asking him about the damage that this entire process has done to his profession, to his party and to the country. >> we have damaged our credibility very badly, and all of us. the president's numbers have gone down. democrat's numbers have gone done. republican's numbers have gone down only greater. and it has eroded the confidence. you just showed, eroded the confidence on the part of the american people. remember that many of the...
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. >> john mccain. >> john mccain is who he's -- >> look at the division here. >> wait a minute. get to this point. let's let him have his point. here's the guy, new voice of the republican party, he and the guy from texas, ted cruz, trashing all the people that have been there before him. >> right. he's out there saying we need new ideas. what is the new idea? it's livety. marco rubio says we have good ideas. what's the good idea? america. this is the big debate in the party. liberty versus america. >> don't the democrats have america, too? >> where are they going with this? >> they have liberty. >> is it liberty or is it america? i'm so confused. >> there is a split. rand paul says we need more ideas and need to be more libertarian and less interventionist. okay, just his basic themes. marco rubio says we don't need to change anything except the candidates. we need to have candidatesticul been saying all along. that's going two o be the fight the party. >> when you get your butt kicked in an election you really thought -- ann romney is probably an okay person. she thought she w
. >> john mccain. >> john mccain is who he's -- >> look at the division here. >> wait a minute. get to this point. let's let him have his point. here's the guy, new voice of the republican party, he and the guy from texas, ted cruz, trashing all the people that have been there before him. >> right. he's out there saying we need new ideas. what is the new idea? it's livety. marco rubio says we have good ideas. what's the good idea? america. this is the big debate in...
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one, he has to hope john mccain puts a sock on it. they know that -- republicans know that if john mccain is the face of it, that that's like waving a red cape of conservatives. >> right, and we had justice alito, one of the most powerful conservatives in town, and he said listen, everyone thinks immigration reform is going to happen. just wait until we start running ads that say immigration reform will create 10 million new democrats, all of whom are here because they broke the law. then talk to me about whether it can pass, and that's the pressure we're seeing put on marco rubio. and rubio is a linchpin. if rubio backs immigration reform, i think we collectively think it happens. >> absolutely. >> if he backs out, it's done. >> absolutely. i think if he backs out, if he's not up there as one of the faces, i think it is over. >> and speaking of rubio, obviously, he's going to run in 2016, and hillary clinton probably is going to run. >> probably. >> and is very worried about a marco rubio, young, obviously new face for the republican
one, he has to hope john mccain puts a sock on it. they know that -- republicans know that if john mccain is the face of it, that that's like waving a red cape of conservatives. >> right, and we had justice alito, one of the most powerful conservatives in town, and he said listen, everyone thinks immigration reform is going to happen. just wait until we start running ads that say immigration reform will create 10 million new democrats, all of whom are here because they broke the law. then...
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so you saw john mccain the former presidential nominee hitting paul on this issue. how to deal with the tea party on fiscal issues and social type of issues and policy issues is another question. gwen: is this one of these cases where the democrats decided this isn't my fight, i'm going to let them fight themselves? >> i think it's party loyalty. sitting senators of a sitting president don't go on the floor and go after them. ron widen who has been very consistent on this issue which is ideologically consistent. but i would not be surprised to see a big liberal rally for barack obama. gwen: thank you, everybody. we're going to leave you just a few minutes early this week to give you the chance to support your local pbs station which in turn supports us. the conversation will continue online on the "washington week" extra. we will tackle everything we didn't tackle this week. keep up with me on the pbs newshour and we'll see you next week on "washington week." good night. >> corporate funding for "washington week" is provided by -- >> we went out and asked people a s
so you saw john mccain the former presidential nominee hitting paul on this issue. how to deal with the tea party on fiscal issues and social type of issues and policy issues is another question. gwen: is this one of these cases where the democrats decided this isn't my fight, i'm going to let them fight themselves? >> i think it's party loyalty. sitting senators of a sitting president don't go on the floor and go after them. ron widen who has been very consistent on this issue which is...
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there's mccain saying yes. yes. >> you know, nobody not even john mccain is going to convince ted cruz or the 30 or 40 members of the kamikaze club in the tea party house of representatives that they're wrong and they should change course. that's not going to happen. what can happen is because of poll results like this, other members of the party whether it's john mccain, whether it's peter king in the house, put enough pressure on boehner and even on mcconnell to fix this thing before the republican brand gets even more tarnished. that's where the action is. you're never going to get the people who came to town to destroy government to feel bad about destroying government. it hurts him as well. >> with the help of television help you make your point. in addition to cruz, other tea party republicans continue to operate in their chamber. they don't seem to care the country is suffering. here's a representative from louisiana. he said quote, we knew going into this we would get most of the blame. we get most of t
there's mccain saying yes. yes. >> you know, nobody not even john mccain is going to convince ted cruz or the 30 or 40 members of the kamikaze club in the tea party house of representatives that they're wrong and they should change course. that's not going to happen. what can happen is because of poll results like this, other members of the party whether it's john mccain, whether it's peter king in the house, put enough pressure on boehner and even on mcconnell to fix this thing before...
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senator john mccain expressed appreciation for the invitation. it was a chance to begin the discussion. according to one senator, when dinner was over, saxby chambliss offered to pick up the tab. but the president refused and picked it up out of his own pocket. >>> last night the house easily passed a $982 billion short-term bill to fund the government through september. most of the no votes were democrats. those automatic spending known as the sequester. meanwhile, house speaker john boehner brushed off the idea that he and the president could work one-on-one to come up with a wide-ranging plan to deal with the fiscal cliff. >> no more deals, no more boehner top-down deals? >> those haven't worked. i don't think it's the way to get to one. you don't have enough member buy it. two people hiding behind closed doors doesn't replicate 535 members of congress or the wisdom of 535 members of congress. or 300 million americans. this should be done out in the open. members should have a chance to participate and i think we need to grow this organically
senator john mccain expressed appreciation for the invitation. it was a chance to begin the discussion. according to one senator, when dinner was over, saxby chambliss offered to pick up the tab. but the president refused and picked it up out of his own pocket. >>> last night the house easily passed a $982 billion short-term bill to fund the government through september. most of the no votes were democrats. those automatic spending known as the sequester. meanwhile, house speaker john...
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steve schmidt is a lightweight, a guy who did a horrible job running john mccain's campaign. >> i always said the worst president was jimmy carter. guess what. jimmy carter goes to second place. barack obama has been the worst president ever. >> oh, donald, little advice here tonight. don't take your frustration out on dead spin. they only told you what the rest of the country has been thinking for years. tonight in our survey, i ask you, do republicans finally realize the consequences of holding the economy hostage? 31% of you say yes. 69% of you say no. >>> coming up, the controversy overcoming clean. find out why lance armstrong's confession is not impressing the people who matter most. we'll talk about that with a psychologist next. >> big finish tonight, while we're human from time to time, we'll say things that aren't true. some try to keep their lives going, others come clean. this week lance armstrong decided to confess his lies to oprah in front of about 3.2 million viewers. he admits he cheated so he could win seven tour de france titles. he says he would do anything to win, in
steve schmidt is a lightweight, a guy who did a horrible job running john mccain's campaign. >> i always said the worst president was jimmy carter. guess what. jimmy carter goes to second place. barack obama has been the worst president ever. >> oh, donald, little advice here tonight. don't take your frustration out on dead spin. they only told you what the rest of the country has been thinking for years. tonight in our survey, i ask you, do republicans finally realize the...
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senators came and worked out a deal with harry reid and john mccain. under certain conditions could you require this kind of filibuster, you set the criteria for the judge did that you want at the appellate level, and then you go. they are blocking the president's appointment powers. that is why you have to think about the nuclear option. >> all of this began when bush nominated a promising, rising young hispanic attorney named .iguel estrada obviously on the way to becoming a supreme court justice. the democrats refuse to act on this for over two years, at which point, he withdrew. i agree with you. for presidential nominees, if should be 50 votes. >> for the record, i am catholic. the reality is, what you have done here is you have the government on its knees. republican senators have hidden behind a filibuster. it is time for them to show some spine and vote up or down on nominees and notthe smokescreene filibuster. >> so therefore, we feel obliged to consider whether the voters of new york city would be willing to forgive a couple of politicians wh
senators came and worked out a deal with harry reid and john mccain. under certain conditions could you require this kind of filibuster, you set the criteria for the judge did that you want at the appellate level, and then you go. they are blocking the president's appointment powers. that is why you have to think about the nuclear option. >> all of this began when bush nominated a promising, rising young hispanic attorney named .iguel estrada obviously on the way to becoming a supreme...